John Rocker was sent down from the
Atlanta Braves to the Richmond team for a few games
because his pitching had suffered from the abuse
he received from the thugs in the stadium and in
the media. If he had been black, and his comments
had been about killing cops he would have had no
trouble with them. Rappers make money pushing that
stuff. But Rocker attacked New York's diversity,
and nobody is allowed to attack diversity.
At his first game, Richmond at Toledo, Rocker was
once again given a roaring welcome by the fans which
was completely without precedent. You are not going
to read this in the regular media, only on the Internet.
|
On March 18, 2000, in "Our
Masters Are Upset That They No Longer Own the Gun
Permit Business", I explained that the
25,000 concealed weapons permit holders in South
Carolina are a potent new force in our politics.
They are organized in Grassroots,
South Carolina, which is doing a really spectacular
job of lobbying. We have a link with them here on
the SCLoS site, and we can learn from them.
Grassroots South Carolina has won some victories,
but it lost the big one this year. As I pointed
out on March 18, the old gun permits, which were
given out on the basis of political favoritism,
had no restrictions on them. But when new permits
were made available that you have to EARN, petty
politicians loaded them with restrictions. One of
the biggest is that if you go to any place that
serves drinks, you can't carry your weapon with
you to or from that place.
Well-dressed people going in and out of expensive
restaurants are the prime targets for muggers, and
they need to carry more than others.
Other states do not have this restriction and they
have had no more incidents of trouble with permit
holders than we do.
Which means NONE. If one of the hundreds of thousands
of people who have had permits for the last five
years of this decade did do anything bad, you may
be sure the media would trumpet it from coast to
coast.
The simple fact of the matter remains that honest
citizens with guns are never the problem.
Contrary to what gun control advocates tell you,
a policeman is not a god. A major part of his function
is to be an honest, law-abiding citizen who is armed
to protect himself and his fellow citizens.
We don't need Clinton's fake fifty thousand new
cops as much we need hundreds of thousands of new
permit holders to make crime a desperate risk for
muggers.
Surprisingly enough, there was almost no opposition
in the South Carolina legislature to this reform
of the concealed weapons law. Twenty-five thousand
people, militant and almost every one a voter, is
a formidable force. The reform was going through
easily until three legislators stopped it.
Guess what party those three belonged to?
I am not surprised that it was three Republicans
who stopped the gun law reform. Remember, it was
Republican governor David Beasley who switched on
us on the Confederate flag. When a hot button conservative
issue comes up, it is usually Republicans who take
"credit" for selling us out on it. If
a Democrat takes the lead on a liberal policy, he
will pay for it in the next election. But if a Republican
takes the lead, as Beasley did, he thinks he can
gain liberal support and not worry about conservatives.
They'll vote for him anyway. So he thought it it
would pay him to turn on us.
We taught Beasley reality by voting for the Democrat
running against him. We came very near to scaring
the Republicans away from taking the flag down.
But they still think they can sell us out on the
flag and on gun control. The question is, can they?
A straight Republican ticket in 2000 is a resounding
"Yes!"
When Nixon withdrew recognition from Taiwan, he
had the full backing of the Democratic Party. If
you sell out people on your own side, you are safe
from having a problem with it in the general election.
After all, your most solid supporter on such issues
is the party you will face in the general elections.
Right after World War II, Jacob Javits decided to
run for Senate in New York as a liberal Republican
because the Democrats couldn't use his earlier Communist
affiliations against him. As long as he called himself
a Republican, he could do anything against the United
States he wanted to. Most Republicans will sell
anybody or any principle out in the name of Republican
party loyalty.
It was the Republican Richland county sheriff Sloan
who was a main advocate for gun control in South
Carolina until his own incompetence finally got
rid of him. As always, he could afford it, because
Republicans would vote for him slavishly, principle
be damned.
This slavish Republicanism has an another effect
no one seems to notice: it keeps Democrats liberal.
Politicians go for the swing vote. As long as conservative
voters will back Republicans regardless, conservatives
have no effect whatever on Democratic elected officials.
Democrats will only do conservative things if they
stand a chance of getting conservative votes for
it.
Some Democrats did support the flag, and many more
would have had there been some potential votes in
it for them. It was a few conservative Democrats
who dared speak up against our caving in to the
Supreme Court's gigantic anti-constitutional power
grab on the anti-miscegenation laws (See July 1,
2000, "We Cannot Criticize
the Federal Courts Any More").
No respectable Republican would dare do that.
Now Republicans take the lead in betraying us on
the gun issue, right after selling us out in a "compromise"
on the flag. And the more blindly we support South
Carolina Republicans the more they will do this
to us.
Once again, in real world politics, you get no more
than you demand.
|